Yielding is the manner of the Way.

Bend and you will be straight.

In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.

When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.